TFS S4 E9: The Texas Longhorns are National Champions* + Sean Mapes and Turner Barnes Join to Break Down the March Madness Commercials

04/10/19 • 66 min

Light the Tower! The Texas Longhorns Men's Basketball team are National (Invitational Tournament) Champs. Thomas breaks down what this means for the team (1:20) and Shaka Smart going forward (3:00). Then Recurring Guest Sean Mapes and first time guest Turner Barnes join to talk March Madness (4:23), rate the crop of commercials from the tournament (14:20), and give an NBA Playoffs preview (39:50). Thomas finishes the show with Texas baseball talk (59:23), The Masters preview (1:01:07), the premier of a new segment: C'mon Son (1:02:12), and the Fun Fact of the Week (1:05:02).

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TFS S4 E8: Horns Still Dancing in March plus Recurring Guest Ariea Bastami

Texas Basketball aims for the NIT title while Shaka aims for the west coast (maybe, but probably not). I talk about why, despite what Longhorn twitter says, the NIT was the best thing that could have happened to the team this year (1:10). Next I talk briefly on the chalkiest year of all in March Madness and how Texas Tech is the scariest team in the Final Four (7:35). Then recurring guest and Longhorn Legend Ariea Bastami joins to talk about his new album, Keep Dreaming (10:40), making a song with Logic (21:00), and I trash on his Lakers (36:55). Finally we wrap up the show with some Texas Baseball talk (51:54) and the Fun Fact of the Week (56:05).

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TFS S4 E10: Both Texas and Tiger are Back + Recurring Guest James Boswell Joins

Recurring guest James Boswell joins to talk Texas Football being back for the spring game (0:55-13:45), Texas Baseball in a slump (13:45-21:55), and Tiger Woods winning his first major in 15 years & we discuss what that means for the game of golf (21:55-32:27). As always we wrap up the show with the Fun Fact of the Week (33:30-34:47).